Waistband for trousers



Dec. 13, 192 7.

W. B. FOSTER WAISTBAND FOR TROUSERS Filed Jan. 5, 1925 Patented Dec. 13, 1927.

UNITED STATES 1,652,567 PATENT o FlcE.

WILLIAM B. FOSTER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGrIiTOR TO UNION SPECIAL MACHINE COMPANY, OFCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, CORPORATION' OF ILLINOIS.

WAISTBAND FOR TROUSERS.

Application filed January 5, 1925. Serial No. 584.

The invention relates to new and. useful improvements in trousers, and more particularly to the waist band construction thereof. p

An object of the invention'is to provide at waist band which includes a stiffening strip and a lining or facing strip, wherein the lining strip and stiffening strip are secured together and to the body fabric forming the trousers by stitches which are con cealed from view at the front of the garment by the body fabric, and also concealed from view at the inside of the garment by the facing strip, and wherein there are two lines of concealed stitches, one of which'is located adjacent the upperedge of the stiffening strip and the other adjacent the lower edge of the stiffening strip, and wherein the facing strip of the waist band is wider than the stiffening strip and projects below the same when the parts are united.

In the drawings which show by way of illustration one embodiment of the invention- Figure l is a sectional View through the body fabric of the trousers, the stiffening strip and the facing strip which have been united by my improved arrangement of concealed stitches, and prior to the folding of the waist band inside the garment;

Figure 2 is a similar view, but showing the waist band structure folded inside of the body fabric of the trousers, and

Figure 3 is a plan view from the inside of the garment, the several layers being broken away to show the construction of the waist band.

.Referring to the drawings, the waist band consists of a canvas stiffening strip 1. The body fabric of the trousers is indicated at 2, and the facing strip for the waist band is indicated at This facing strip i considerably wider than the stiffening strip. One edge of the facing strip is inturned at 4;, and this inturned edge is superposed upon the body portion of the fabric forming the trousers, and the body portion 2 is superposed upon the canvas strip 1. These parts are united by a line of stitches 5 which enter first the inturned portion of the facing strip and emerge from the outer face of the stiffening strip where the thread loops forming the penetrating stitches are secured in the ordinary way; that is, either by a looper thread or interlocking of the loops which penetrate the fabric parts. The lower edge of the facing strip 3 is inturned at 6. This inturned portion 6 is of considerable length so that the fold in the facing strip eat-ends some distance below the edge 8 of the stiffening strip. The folded edge of the-facing strip is indicated at 7. The inturned portion'6 of the'facing strip is secured to the stiffening strip 1 by a line of stitches 9. These stitches are formed by a series of loops which pass first through the inturned portion 6 of the facing strip and then through the stiffening strip,and the loop are then enchained or secured by the looper thread. These concealed stitches are of the type shown-in the patent to Higgins No. 1,195,814, grant-ed August 22, 1916. The thread from which the loops are formed lies between the inturned portions of the facing strip and the body portion of the facing 7 strip, and the loops are passed through said inturned portions and through the fabric parts to be united thereby. Thus it is that the body portion of the facing will conceal the threads so that they are invisible from the face side of the fabric strip. The body fabric, where it has been secured to the waist band is folded to the position shown in Fig. 2, and the stitched parts may be tacked in this position, if desired. The body fabric 2 will conceal the cnchained loops which look the needle threads and cause the loops formed therein to secure the parts together. The body portion of the facing strip will likewise conceal the threads from which the loops are formed for stitching the parts as described above.

I do not claim broadly a waist band construction wherein the threads for securing the parts are concealed as above noted. but I do believe that I am the first to provide a waist band structure having the parts thereof secured together by concealed stitches and wherein the waist band is sufficiently wide to hang below the lower edge of the stiffening strip so as to conceal said edge.

In a (Bo-pending application filed of even date herewith, Serial No. 570, there is shown a machine for forming the waist band which is described above.

The broad principle embodied in said machine resides in the fact] facing strip is caused to move rearwardly away from the needles after the manner described in the Higgins patent, the inturned edges of the facing strip only will be penetrated by the needles.

From the above it will be apparent that a waist band construction has been provided which can be made and secured to the body portion of trousers in one operation, both the upper and lower edges of the waist band being finished and the parts which are united during this operation have their stitches laid so as to be concealed from the front of ghe body fabric as well as from the inner ace.

It is obvious that minor changes in the details of construction and the arrangement of the parts may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is

The combination with the body fabric of trousers, of a stiffening strip at the Waist band of the trousers, said body fabric being folded over the upper edge of said stiffening strip, a facing strip having its upper edge inturned and placed against the inner face of the folded over edge of the body fabric, a

line of stitches passing through the inturned portion only of the facing, said folded over edge of the body fabric and the stiffening strip, and concealed from view at the outer face of the garment by the body fabric, and at the inner face of the garment by said facing strip, said facing strip at the lower edge thereof being inturned and secured to the stiffening strip by a line of stitches which passes through the inturned portion only of. the facing strip and through said stiffening strip, said last-named line of stitches being concealed from view at the outer face of the garment by the body fabric, and at the inner face of the. garment by said facing strip, said facing strip having a fold in the upper edge thereof substantially in alineinent with the upper edge of the stiffening strip and its fold in the lower edge thereof disposed at a considerable distance below the lower edge of the stiffening strip.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

VILLIAM B. FOSTER. 

